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Desultory efforts to stop flooding only torment Karachi poor

Taking pictures of poor kids as they smile, and then convincing the world that the reality is confined within the frame, is sheer dismissal...

Climate risks dwarf Europe’s energy crisis, space chief warns

The head of the European Space Agency (ESA) has warned economic damage from heatwaves and drought could dwarf Europe's energy crisis as he called...

Biden to announce climate action as heatwave hits Europe

US President Joe Biden will announce Wednesday a series of executive measures to combat climate change, in an effort to push forward an environmental...
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Meet Pakistan’s first environment friendly doll Fizza

The Global Climate Risk Index has ranked Pakistan as the eighth-highest country affected by climate change. The country is at risk to climate disasters...

Fossil fuel support ‘insanity’, #COP26 told

US climate envoy John Kerry told COP26 that fossil fuel subsidies were "insanity" Friday as countries laid out their red lines in the final...

G20 offers little new on climate, leaving uphill task for COP26

ROME: Leaders of the Group of 20 major economies agreed on a final statement on Sunday that urged "meaningful and effective" action to limit...

Climate, COVID and the economy top G20 agenda at Rome summit

The heads of the world's 20 biggest economies (G20) kicked off two days of talks on Saturday where they were set to acknowledge the...

Stopping Earth from heating up

The Earth is heating up to almost an unbearable degree giving rise to climatic problems bringing misery to human existence

Filmmakers, activists call for climate efforts in Cannes

CANNES: Documentary makers and environmental activists including British teenager Bella Lack on Sunday said they hoped to inspire more efforts on climate change, including...

US pledges to halve its emissions by 2030 in renewed climate fight

The Biden administration on Thursday pledged to slash U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 50%-52% from 2005 levels by 2030, a new target

Earth is losing ice faster today than in the mid-1990s, study suggests

Altogether, an estimated 28 trillion metric tons of ice have melted away from the world’s sea ice, ice sheets and glaciers since the mid-1990s

2020 ties 2016 as hottest year on record

The six years since 2015 are the six warmest ever registered, as are 20 of the last 21, evidence of a persistent and deepening trend

Coronavirus having little impact on climate: UN agency

Though factories have shut, planes have been grounded and cars left in the garage, the coronavirus pandemic is having very little impact on climate change.

Satellite data lays scale of methane leaks bare

Methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, is leaking from industry sites at rates equivalent to the annual carbon emissions of France and Germany combined.

UN chief says drop in emissions from virus will not solve climate crisis

Guterres warned that while the global outbreak of coronavirus may have caused a temporary drop in emissions that cause global warming, it would not end the problem and might even divert attention from the fight.

Flight of fancy? Aviation industry tries to go green

The aviation industry is ramping up efforts to go green as consumer pressure grows like something from a sci-fi movie to electric aircraft and sustainable fuel.

Australian bushfires extinguished, but climate rows rage on

Dozens of families have lost loved ones, thousands of homes and farms have been gutted, swathes of the east coast are scarred charcoal-black and millions have had their sense of security shaken.

Australia bushfires flare as heatwave brings renewed misery

Soldiers went door-to-door advising residents to leave the South Australian town of Parndana on Kangaroo Island after a large blaze bore down on the area, with temperatures there soaring to 38 degrees Celsius.

Frustrated with climate talks, activists dump manure outside Madrid summit

Led by grassroots group Extinction Rebellion, the actions were timed to coincide with the closing of the COP25 climate change summit.

UN climate talks unravelling, face failure

Faced with five-alarm warnings from science, deadly extreme weather made worse by climate change, and weekly strikes by millions of young people, negotiations in Madrid were under pressure to send a clear signal
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